Haaretz, by Oded Yaron, 18 March 2012
An online
call for peace initiated by an Israeli couple has managed to achieve the
support of 1,000 Israelis and Iranians. And it all began with two posters.
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| An image from a poster on the 'Israel Loves Iran' Facebook page.Pushpin Mehina |
Ronny Edry
and his wife Michal Tamir, together with "Pushpin Mehina", a small
preparatory school for graphic design students, uploaded posters to Facebook
depicting images of themselves with their children alongside the words,
"Iranians, we will never bomb your country, we [heart] you."
Attached to
each poster was the caption, "To the Iranian people, To all the fathers,
mothers, children, brothers and sisters, For there to be a war between us,
first we must be afraid of each other, we must hate. I'm not afraid of you, I
don't hate you. I don t even know you. No Iranian ever did me no harm."
"I'm
not an official representative of my country. I m [sic] a father and a
teacher", wrote Edry, adding that he wishes to send a message on behalf of
his neighbors, family, students and friends. "[W]e love you. We mean you
no harm", he wrote. "On the contrary, we want to meet, have some
coffee and talk about sports."
In a
conversation with Haaretz, Edry explained that he hoped his initiative would
reach the Iranian citizens, but admitted that he never believed it would gain
so much momentum. "On my Facebook page I have left-wing friends who always
speak of these things; they all agree with me. Every so often a right-winger
answers me saying what we're on about is rubbish, but I've never spoken to an
Iranian."
"I
thought that when you're constantly surrounded by talk of threats and war, you
are so stressed and afraid that you crawl into a sort of shell and think to
yourself how lucky we are to also have bombs and how lucky we are that we'll
clean them out first," he said. "So I thought, 'Why not try to reach
the other side; to bypass the generals and see if they [Iranians] really hate
me?'"
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| An image on the Facebook page of the 'Israel Loves Iran' blog. (Photo by: Pushpin Mehina) |
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At first,
the posters were castigated, said Edry. "After the first poster people
started criticizing me, saying I'm an idiot, that I’m naïve. 'Why are you
telling them you love them? Why are you giving up before the war has even
started?'" But very quickly the posters became a hit: the first image
gained hundreds of "Likes" and "Shares," and numerous
people asked to join the initiative.
It was not
long before reactions from Iranians began trickling through. "I never
imagined that within 48 hours I would be speaking to the other side," said
Edry, who explained that most of the Iranians' messages had been coming through
in private, but that there had been some who invited him to be their Facebook
friend.
In a
conversation that took place on Saturday evening, after a full day spent in
front of the computer chatting to Israelis and Iranians, Edry was buzzing with
excitement. "Something insane is going on here," said Edry. "I
was just having a conversation with a few Iranians, trying to convince them to
send me photos of themselves, and they told me that we [Israelis] might be able
to publish photos, but they risk going to jail over such a thing." In the
meanwhile, they conversed via private messages, with their identities
concealed.
However, by
Sunday morning, Edry began receiving the first signs of reactions from the
other side.
"We
also love you. Your words are reaching us despite the censorship," wrote
one Facebook user from Iran. "The Iranian people, apart from the regime,
do not hold a grudge nor animosity against anyone, especially not the Israelis…
We never saw Israelis as our enemies. As such, the regime cannot gain public
support for war."
"The
hatred was invented by the propaganda of the regime, which will die soon",
continued the Iranian Facebook user. "The ayatollah will die soon.
[Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad will disappear. He is nothing more than
an opportunist, and more than anything – an idiot. Everyone hates him. We love
you, love, peace. And thanks for your message."
By Sunday
afternoon, faceless posters prepared by Iranians, sharing a similar message of
thanks and love, were posted onto the Pushpin Mehina Facebook page and the
"Israel Loves Iran" blog.
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